SOMEONE at Citroën is clearly a kindred spirit. They know what it’s like to grow up as part of a larger family – and they’ve come up with a ...
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The Land Rover Defender is one car none of us wanted to lose
IT’S FINALLY happened. A car that’s spent the best part of two decades dodging the Grim Reaper has finally been offered a final parting drin...
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James May is proof you don't need explosions to make great car TV
ABOUT A YEAR ago I had confirmation of something most car nuts suspect. Given the choice of a quiet evening, your local pub and any of the f...
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Bentley goes back to the stone age
NORMALLY it’d take a couple of days for some robots to bolt your next new car together – but they do things differently at Bentley. Order th...
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Volkswagen gets generous with its New Year update
VOLKSWAGEN has clearly made kitting its cars out more generously one of its New Year resolutions if a quick update of its Polo, Golf and Pas...
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New classic car show for Lancashire in 2016
CLASSIC car owners across the North West are being encouraged to get their entries in for a new show being held in May. Mawdeseley Cricket C...
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May the force be with the new Honda NSX
STAR WARS fans have had it easy – they’ve only had to wait ten years for a follow-up. If you want to see real patience then spare a thought...
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The new Top Gear presenters - why you're not one of them
AT LEAST one of my fellow motoring scribes has found out the hard way. That - perhaps rather predictably - they haven't got the job of b...
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New venue for Lancashire classic car New Year show
A NEW YEAR treat for classic car fans in Lancashire has been relocated to a new venue. Traditionally the January 1 show for owners of older ...
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Forget Bugatti - the Fiat 124 Spider is what I'm looking forward to
IT’S ironic that 50 years after the national speed limit was introduced spy shots have emerged online of what’s likely to be the world’s fas...
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The big surprise about the P38 Range Rover
IT’S not every eleven-year-old who gets the gig of redesigning Southport Pier. Why subcontract Southport’s seaside flagship out to some high...
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Genesis – the beginning of a tricky car experiment
JUST the other day I spent rather too long looking longingly at wax jackets in a swanky shop in the Lake District. Normally I have about as ...
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Spectre - great film, shame about the cars
I’M THINKING of opening a sanctuary – perhaps on some remote Scottish island – for fellow film fanatics in the run-up to James Bond’s next o...
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You love the NEC Classic Motor Show - here are some other great classic car shows you won't want to miss
LAST weekend I joined 68,000 of you in getting up at the crack of dawn so they can join a traffic jam just outside Birmingham. It was worth ...
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Peugeot - the driverless drive of your life
KEEN students of all things ironic – and I don’t mean Alanis Morrisette’s terrible 1995 hit – will look back at this week as a pivotal point...
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Forget the emissions tests – it’s the real world that matters for Volkswagen
SOMETHING weird has been happening at office water coolers and in crowded bars across the North West. People – some of whom have no interest...
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Porsche's unlikely tip for saving the planet
AS NOBLE callings go saving the planet isn’t exactly glamorous. Sorting out recyclables from household rubbish, paying 5p for shopping bags ...
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Why I love the unloved Allegro
THERE are plenty of great cars I don’t particularly like. Yet it takes a different sort of topsy-turvy logic altogether to like what’s widel...
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We build replicas of sports cars - why not hot hatches?
NOSTALGIA’S a funny thing. I doubt the ‘good old days’ really are as marvellous as their supporters make out, but bringing bygone eras back ...
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